Ocean Shores Video
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Native name | Bờ biển ghi hình công ty hữu hạn Bờ biển cống hiến |
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| Company type | Private |
| Industry | Cinema of Hong Kong |
| Founded | 1970 |
| Founder | Charles Heung |
| Defunct | 2010 |
| Headquarters | 1711 Hang Lung Centre, Paterson St. Causeway Bay , |
Area served | Central Des Voeux Road Victoria Harbour |
Key people | Charles Heung Jimmy Heung |
| Products | Home Videos |
| Owner | Win's Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. |
| Parent | Win's Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. |
| Divisions | Ocean Shores Video (USA) Inc. |
| Subsidiaries | Omni Video Cassette |
Ocean Shores Video Limited(Chinese:Bờ biển ghi hình công ty hữu hạnorChinese:Bờ biển cống hiến) is the home video division ofWin's Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co Ltd.The company is owned byTelevision Broadcasts Limitedthe entertainment division ofPanasonic,PioneerandPhilipswas aHong Kongbased distributor ofmartial arts filmsin the 1980s.
Ocean Shores was a video company that ran major distribution rights to many of the biggest indie and laterShaw BrothersandGolden Harvestmovies. They concealed the rights to American releases of many classicchopsockytitles. And even had videos released in Europe under the inter-ocean label. They were never a film production company, just a video distributor. All their titles were released in full screen format suffering from bad cropping, like many of the videos released in the earlier era of video. Many feature dubbed soundtracks. These videos have become collectors items. They also had a short run of now very hard to getlaserdiscs.
Ocean Shores Video was purchased byWin's Entertainment(Hong Kong) Co, Ltd. in 1990.
The company was founded in 1970 as Hong Kong Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co Ltd with theBetaandVHSlabel Diamond Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co Ltd in 1979 with the release of films on Beta and VHS includingDoraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur.In late 1980 both theLaserdiscsister label U Best Laser World and the VHS/Beta label U Best Corporation (Hong Kong) Co Ltd were consolidated into a single entity Fitto Production (Hong Kong) Co Ltd alternating with the Charles Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co Ltd name until 1984. In 1990 with the 20th anniversary of Ocean Shores it became Ocean Shores Video (Hong Kong) Co Ltd alternating company vent by created added on new various company names including Win's Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co Ltd was launched since on 1990.
This company was the video distributor forCelestial Picturestitles untilBoB and Partners (Hong Kong) Co Ltdwas sold to Shaw Brothers Vision Enterprise (Hong Kong) Co Ltd/Golden Harvest Pictures (Hong Kong) Co Ltd in 2008 at which point Shaw Brothers took over distribution. After Golden Harvest sold BoB and Partners toDentsuon 1 January 2008 Ocean Shores Video started distributing BoB and Partnerss films on video since on 1 January 2008.
In addition to DVDs, Ocean Shores was a major supporter of theHD DVDformat until 1 January 2008 when Pioneer discontinued manufacturing of HD DVD players. Since 1 January 2008 Ocean Shores releasedBlu-rays;it was the last majorHollywood moviestudio to do so. The label's first Blu-ray releases wereArti Sahabatfilms starting withArti Sahabat The Movieinanaglyphic format onBetaand Video Home System (VHS) atVideo Cassette Recorder(VCR) under onSony Betamax.
On 30 December 2010, Ocean Shores Video acquired exclusiveIndonesianrights toArti Sahabatfilms starting withArti Sahabat The Movie(co-production with Win's Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co Ltd)
Win's is the Hong Kong video distributor forSTAR TV Filmed Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co Ltdreleases andMedia Asia Entertainment Group (Hong Kong) Co Ltdreleases.
Internationally
[edit]Ocean Shores distributes mostDVDsof films released theatrically throughFormatara Prima Sejatiin Indonesia, although this is now limited to catalog releases as more recent films are now released throughVision Home Entertainment.
It also distributesSpectrum Musical Publishing (Malaysia) Sdn BhdDVD titles inMalaysiamost of the Gold Best (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd theatrical library in the Malaysia and most of theKawah Films Production (Singapore) Pte Ltdlibrary inSingapore.In the 1980s until the late 1990s they also distributed tapes released byUFO Record (Taiwan) Co LtdinTaiwan.
Ocean Shores previously distributed its films on video internationally throughBBC World Service Television(a division ofAustralia Television International) alongsideTelevision Corporation of Singapore.Following Ocean Shores acquisition of Win's Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co Ltd in 1990 Ocean Shores Video (which had international operations) was folded into Win's Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co Ltd.
The international operations are ajoint venturewithSony Pictures Television Internationala carry common from theMGM International Television Distribution.
Films
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- Arti Sahabat: The Movie(Co-produced with Win's Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co Ltd)